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Briar Hill, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goshen-Shady Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grady quadrangle.

Briar Hill within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Briar Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 658 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning23
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2019Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-12
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150906-001
29 September 2016Debris and open burning32 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-29
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150920-001
18 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20130918-002
17 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140917-002
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOLLIER ROAD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Briar Hill: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pike County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Kent2.4 miles8
Shady Grove3.8 miles8
Olustee4.2 miles8
Curry4.7 miles8
Ansley5.1 miles8
Shellhorn6.3 miles8
Orion6.6 miles8
Meeksville7.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114879. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.